PowerColor R9 285 TurboDuo OC Review

With the TurboDuo OC, PowerColor has a Radeon R9 285 in its portfolio, which is based on a reference PCB and a custom cooler. Apart from that there is a tiny factory overclock and this particular card retails at a very reasonalbe price. Overall this is reason enough for find out what exactly this card can do.

Presentation

The new Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo OC graphics card from PowerColor
features a reference design PCB, TurboDuo cooler and a little factory
overclocking. Overall this is PowerColors interpretation of a
R9 285 graphics card reference PCB card which got combined with their custom
cooler.

Since it is the TurboDuo OC version of the PowerColor Radeon R9 285
series, the card features a slight factory overclock of 12 MHz on the core.
While the standard reference Radeon R9 285 GPU is set to work at 933 MHz, the PowerColor TurboDuo OC
works at 945 MHz.

Unfortunately, no factory overclocking was done on the 2GB of GDDR5 memory that
remains at the recommended 1'375 MHz (5'500 MHz effective).

During our testing the PowerColor Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo held 945 MHz without
any throttling whatsoever.